The Art Of Making The Spleen Laugh - 1756 Original Clandestine Edition

The Art of Hilarious Explosion: Taking Each Page to Itself, T. the D. A. Gallipoli of Calabria, The Year of Follies 1758-86. Beautiful first edition dated 1756, by A.J. Panckoucke, clandestine edition without privilege, peddler's sale. 12mo format (9 x 15 cm).
Complete in 430 pages. Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Red morocco title label and gilt initials, spine with raised bands, headcaps present and sound. Slight wear to the covers, marbled interiors.
A beautiful and uncommon work, filled with farces, aphorisms, and verses that are not very correct, humorous, and daring for that time, when nothing was distributed without Privilege or Royal Approval, except for this kind of so-called "clandestine" work. The title page is a joke in itself: the subtitle, the year, the place of printing.